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AP NSL Chapter 1
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- 1GovernmentThe institutions that make authoritative decisions for any given society are collectively known as government.
- 2Pubic goodsGoods that cannot be denied to anyone and must be shared.
- 3PoliticsThe process by which we select our governmental leaders and what policies they pursue.
- 4Political participationAll the activities that citizens use to influence the selection o political leaders or the polities they pursue. Voting is the most common version of this.
- 5Single-issue groupsGroups that have narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise and often draw membership from people new to politics.
- 6Policy making systemThe process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time. People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues that shape policy.
- 7Linkage institutionsThe political channels through which people's concerns become political issues on the policy agenda.
- 8Policy agendaThe issues that attract the serious attentions of public officials and other people actually involved in politics.
- 9Political issueAn issue that arises when people disagree about a problem and how to fix it.
- 10Policy making institiuionsThe branches of government charged with taking action on political issues.
- 11Public policyA choice that government makes in response o a political issue.
- 12Policy impactsThe effects that a policy has on people and society's problems.
- 13DemocracyA system of selecting policy makers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences.
- 14Majority ruleA fundamental principle that in a democracy, choosing among alternatives requires tat the majority's desire be respected.
- 15Minority rightsA principle of traditional democratic theory that guarantees right sot those who do no belong to majorities and allows them to join a majority.
- 16RepresentationA basic principle of traditional democracy that describes the relationship between the few leaders and the many followers.
- 17Pluralist theoryA theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each on pressing for its own agenda.
- 18Elite and class theoryA theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper-class elite will rule, regardless oft he formal niceties of governmental organization.
- 19HyperpluralismA theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. An extreme form of pluralism.
- 20Policy gridlockA condition that occurs when no coalitions is strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, nothing gets done.
- 21Political cultureThe political value and ideals that are held up by all citizens of a country.
- 22Laissez-faireAn economic belief that the economy will regulate itself without any government involvement.
- 23PopulismTheory that politics should respond to the need of the common person.
- 24Gross domestic product (GDP)The sum total of the value of all good and services produced in a nation.
- 25IndividualismThe belief that individuals should be left on their own by the government.
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